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Handbook for Death Scene Investigators

Handbook for Death Scene Investigators

Handbook for Death Scene Investigators provides concise information in a handy pocket-sized (3 1/2 x 6) format - perfect for on-the-scene reference. Details about sudden natural deaths by disease and accidents are emphasized in this guidebook complemented with practical information on:reviewing a medical chartcollecting evidenceobtaining a medical historyinteracting with other law enforcement personnel witnesses and relativesAnyone responsible for investigating natural deaths - from police investigators to medical examiners - can go direct to the information they need at a moment's notice with the Handbook for Death Scene InvestigatorsFeatures

GBP 190.00
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The Reflective Practitioner How Professionals Think in Action

The Reflective Practitioner How Professionals Think in Action

A leading M. I. T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions - engineering architecture management psychotherapy and town planning - to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals Donald Schön maintains know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated largely unexamined process is the subject of Schön's provocatively original book an effort to show precisely how 'reflection-in-action' works and how this vital creativity might be fostered in future professionals. | The Reflective Practitioner How Professionals Think in Action

GBP 180.00
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The Art of Writing Fiction

The Art of Writing Fiction

The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as structure character voice and setting. Andrew Cowan provides an insightful introduction that brings his own well-crafted prose style to bear on the processes and pleasures of writing fiction offering practical and personal advice culled from his own experience and that of other published writers. He lays open to the reader his own notes his writing and the experiences from his own life that he has drawn on in his fiction allowing the reader to develop their own writing project alongside the author as they go through the book.

GBP 180.00
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A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using SAS

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using SAS

Updated to reflect SAS 9. 2 A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using SAS Third Edition continues to provide a straightforward description of how to conduct various statistical analyses using SAS. Each chapter shows how to use SAS for a particular type of analysis. The authors cover inference analysis of variance regression generalized linear models longitudinal data survival analysis principal components analysis factor analysis cluster analysis discriminant function analysis and correspondence analysis. They demonstrate the analyses through real-world examples including methadone maintenance treatment the relation of cirrhosis deaths to alcohol consumption a sociological study of children heart transplant treatment and crime rate determinants. With the data sets and SAS code available online this book remains the go-to resource for learning how to use SAS for many kinds of statistical analysis. It serves as a stepping stone to the wider resources available to SAS users.

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship

The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship

The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship offers a thorough exploration of the debates surrounding this contentious topic considering the importance placed upon it in democratic societies and the reasons frequently proposed for limiting and constraining it. This volume addresses the various historical philosophical political and cultural parameters of censorship and freedom of expression as well as current debates involving technology journalism and media regulation. Geographically temporally and culturally diverse accounts of censorship and freedom of expression are discussed through a broad range of perspectives and case studies. This Companion covers core principles and concerns in addition to more specialist and controversial debates including those surrounding hate speech holocaust denial pornography and so-called “cancel culture”. The collection pays particular attention to the role of the media in both facilitating and suppressing freedom of expression. Comprehensive original and timely The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship is a go-to resource for scholars and advanced students of media communication and journalism studies.

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

This comprehensive second edition provides an updated essential guide to the key issues methodologies concepts debates and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising. This updated edition takes a critical look at advertising and promotion during the explosion of digital and social media as well as with significant social and cultural shifts including the COVID-19 pandemic the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement the destabilization of democracies and rise of authoritarianism around the world and intensification of the climate crisis. The book offers global perspectives on advertising and promotion with attention to issues of diversity and difference. It contains eight sections: Historical Perspectives on Advertising and Promotion; Promotional Industries; Advertising Audiences; Advertising Identities; Advertising and/in Crisis; Promotion and Politics; Promotionalism and Its Expansions; and Advertising Promotion and the Environment. With chapters written by leading international scholars working at the intersections of media and advertising studies this book is a go-to source for scholars and students in communication media studies and advertising and marketing looking to understand the ways advertising has shaped consumer culture in the past and present. | The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

GBP 200.00
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Biology of Fishes

Biology of Fishes

The Third Edition of Biology of Fishes is chiefly about fish as remarkably efficient machines for coping with the many problems that life in water entails and looks at many such special cases. Fishes form the largest group of vertebrates with around 20 000 known species and they display a remarkable diversity of size shape internal structure and ecology to cope with environments ranging from transient puddles to the abyssal depths of the sea. Biology of Fishes does not try to cover all aspects of fish biology but focuses on the ingenious ways in which fish have resolved the particular problems that come from living in water especially body fluid regulation locomotion feeding mechanisms and sensory systems. Enough detail is provided for the reader to be able to go on and use primary research papers. Each chapter has been thoroughly updated and a new chapter on the immune system has been added. This is an ideal textbook for students of fish biology and any of the branches of aquatic biology. Given its skilful combination of breadth and detail the book also provides a manageable review of fish biology for experienced biologists.

GBP 180.00
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The Design Studio Method Creative Problem Solving with UX Sketching

The Design Studio Method Creative Problem Solving with UX Sketching

The struggle with balancing creative products that are innovative technically feasible and financially sound is one designers and web professionals go through every day. The Design Studio Method is a creative problem solving process that allows you to quickly generate ideas evaluate them and reach consensus achieving that balancing act. Brian Sullivan's The Design Studio Method gives answers that you have been looking for showing you how to be innovative and efficient without sacrificing quality and collaboration. This book simplifies the complicated method explaining each step each participant's involvement and how to adapt the method to your needs. The Design Studio Method provides step-by-step procedures to ensure your success. From illumination to generation to presentation all the way to iteration this book provides the road map you'll need to start generating innovate products. Shows you how to involve all members of the creative process—from clients to directors—so that everyone participates critiques and innovates. Features real-world examples of Design Studio projects that highlight the successes of this method and ways to adapt it to your needs. Includes a website that showcases videos covering each step of the method and other procedures that crop up along the way. | The Design Studio Method Creative Problem Solving with UX Sketching

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts illustrates how research guided by the emancipatory epistemology of critical participatory inquiry (CPI) can support social change in transnational contexts which are inherently laden with unequal power dynamics and colonial structures. It builds on prior volumes in participatory action research community-based participatory research and decolonizing methodologies. This edited volume offers cases from across the Global South and Global North and from diverse disciplines including human rights migration education health youth studies and development to demonstrate how CPI can fulfill its democratizing and decolonizing potential. Written primarily by new and emerging scholars practitioners and community leaders these cases go on to illustrate how a critical participatory approach to transnational research can enhance the strength of research processes and findings create more equitable and just experiences for those who participate as co-researchers and facilitate social change. Providing a valuable framework for transnational CPI and a wealth of examples it will be an invaluable read for undergraduate and graduate students of Development Studies Healthcare disciplines Education and qualitative research. It will also be of interest to researchers professionals community leaders and even funders and policymakers who want to work toward greater equity and social justice in transnational research contexts.

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations

The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations

The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations reviews consolidates and advances the study of ideology in international politics. The volume unifies fragmented scholarship on ideology’s impact on international relations into a wide-ranging and go-to volume. Declarations of the ‘end of ideology’ have once again been proven premature: nationalisms of various stripes are thriving; ideological polarization and conflicts both within and among states are growing; and environmentalist feminist and anti-globalization activists are intensifying their demands on international institutions and states. This timely volume presents ideology as a way of explaining these major developments of world politics rejecting the simplistic association of ideology with passionate convictions in favor of more complex theories of ideology’s influence. The chapters summarize cutting edge knowledge on major topics suggest key implications for broader theoretical debates and frameworks and point the way forwards to future avenues of inquiry. Contributors adopt puzzle-orientated causal constitutive and/or critical approaches with a central focus on the determinants and effects of ideological phenomena and their interaction with other aspects of politics. This handbook is of key interest to students and scholars of ideologies international relations foreign policy analysis political science political theory and more broadly to sociology psychology and history. The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations is part of the mini-series Routledge Handbooks on Political Ideologies Practices and Interpretations edited by Michael Freeden.

GBP 190.00
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Plant Tissue Culture Concepts and Laboratory Exercises

Plant Tissue Culture Concepts and Laboratory Exercises

Alternating between topic discussions and hands-on laboratory experiments that range from the in vitro flowering of roses to tissue culture of ferns Plant Tissue Culture Concepts and Laboratory Exercises Second Edition addresses the most current principles and methods in plant tissue culture research. The editors use the expertise of some of the top researchers and educators in plant biotechnology to furnish students instructors and researchers with a broad consideration of the field. Divided into eight major parts the text covers everything from the history of plant tissue culture and basic methods to propagation techniques crop improvement procedures specialized applications and nutrition of callus cultures. New topic discussions and laboratory exercises in the Second Edition include Micropropagation of Dieffenbachia Micropropagation and in vitro flowering of rose Propagation from nonmeristematic tissue-organogenesis Variation in culture and Tissue culture of ferns. It is the book's extensive laboratory exercises that provide a hands-on approach in illustrating various topics of discussion featuring step-by-step procedures anticipated results and a list of materials needed. What's more editors Trigiano and Gray go beyond mere basic principles of plant tissue culture by including chapters on genetic transformation techniques and photographic methods and statistical analysis of data. In all Plant Tissue Culture Concepts and Laboratory Exercises Second Edition is a veritable harvest of information for the continued study and research in plant tissue culture science.

GBP 180.00
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Designer Drafting and Visualizing for the Entertainment World

Designer Drafting and Visualizing for the Entertainment World

In the second edition of Designer Drafting and Visualization for the Entertainment World Patricia Woodbridge a highly experienced art director of feature films and a long time teacher of scenic drafting and set design at the graduate level teams up with nationally-renowned scenic designer and SCAD professor Hal Tine to give you a dynamic glimpse into the world of designing for mainstream entertainment including theatre film tv and corporate events. Drawing on designs from real Hollywood and Broadway blockbusters this book provides you with the basic tools and principles of scenic drafting and rendering beginning with pencil drafting and culminating with the latest information on CAD drafting digital 3D modelling digital and hand/digital rendering and digital graphics for sets. Full of examples from all areas of entertainment this book not only builds on basic principles of designer drafting to give you the most comprehensive knowledge on the subject but also illuminates scenic career paths with insights from professional set design artists who discuss their education and varied career progressions. New to this edition: • Updated chapters on the basics of scenic pencil drafting including examples of sketch drafting or thinking with a pencil • Drafting from Hollywood and TV hits like True Grit I Am Legend Sherlock Holmes Mr. Popper's Penguins Never Let Me Go Gossip Girl and more • New chapters include Period Shapes and Scenic Details Computer Drafting and Illustration Scenery Graphics and Virtual Scenery | Designer Drafting and Visualizing for the Entertainment World

GBP 180.00
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Artificial Superintelligence A Futuristic Approach

Artificial Superintelligence A Futuristic Approach

A day does not go by without a news article reporting some amazing breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI). Many philosophers futurists and AI researchers have conjectured that human-level AI will be developed in the next 20 to 200 years. If these predictions are correct it raises new and sinister issues related to our future in the age of intelligent machines. Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach directly addresses these issues and consolidates research aimed at making sure that emerging superintelligence is beneficial to humanity. While specific predictions regarding the consequences of superintelligent AI vary from potential economic hardship to the complete extinction of humankind many researchers agree that the issue is of utmost importance and needs to be seriously addressed. Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach discusses key topics such as: AI-Completeness theory and how it can be used to see if an artificial intelligent agent has attained human level intelligence Methods for safeguarding the invention of a superintelligent system that could theoretically be worth trillions of dollars Self-improving AI systems: definition types and limits The science of AI safety engineering including machine ethics and robot rights Solutions for ensuring safe and secure confinement of superintelligent systems The future of superintelligence and why long-term prospects for humanity to remain as the dominant species on Earth are not great Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach is designed to become a foundational text for the new science of AI safety engineering. AI researchers and students computer security researchers futurists and philosophers should find this an invaluable resource. | Artificial Superintelligence A Futuristic Approach

GBP 180.00
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Principles of Ecotoxicology

Principles of Ecotoxicology

Cutting across traditional subject boundaries Principles of Ecotoxicology Fourth Edition gives readers an integrated view of ecotoxicology from molecules to ecosystems. This new edition of a bestselling textbook continues to emphasize principles rather than practice providing the interdisciplinary perspective and grounding required for research. Organized into three sections the book first describes the molecular structures properties and environmental fate of pollutants. It then deals with the effects of pollutants on living organisms at the molecular cellular and individual levels. Moving into population biology and population genetics the third part of the book addresses a question of great interest to ecologists: What effects do pollutants have at the levels of population community and the whole ecosystem? The book also looks at how ecotoxicology is used in the biomonitoring of environmental pollution the investigation of pollution problems the conducting of field trials the study of the development of resistance and the growing area of environmental risk assessments. Throughout examples and case studies illustrate the principles. This updated fourth edition includes new material on nanoparticle pollution bioaccumulation biomarkers and chemical warfare in nature as well as a new chapter on the future directions of ecotoxicology. A concise textbook that will also appeal to practicing ecotoxicologists it provides a solid basis for understanding what happens to chemicals in the real world where they go how they ultimately degrade and how they affect the individuals and populations that encounter them. What‘s New in This Edition Revised and updated material throughout A chapter on future directions of ecotoxicology New material on nanoparticle pollution and chemical warfare in nature Ex

GBP 180.00
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Concise Guide to Workplace Safety and Health What You Need to Know When You Need It

Concise Guide to Workplace Safety and Health What You Need to Know When You Need It

Every organization must comply with occupational health and safety regulations. Yet it is frequently unclear which actually apply in a given real-life situation plus the field is loaded with technical terminology and complicated regulations. Many managers trainers even safety and health professionals therefore find it hard to know how to comply with exactly what. Written to make this important discipline more understandable Concise Guide to Workplace Safety and Health: What You Need to Know When You Need It systematically addresses for each of the 34 topics covered core issues such as relevant regulations required program elements and definitions of key terms. Organized for quick access to information this handy reference book demystifies required documentation training elements medical requirements recordkeeping and more. Conveniently the author uses the same 20-part format for every topic. For example if you want to know only about the documentation required you can immediately turn to a topic‘s Section 9 (Written Documentation Required). If training requirements are the issue simply go to a chapter‘s Section 12 (Training Requirements). Also provided for each topic are links to quality background and training information with sample forms and programs where available. The guide covers safety and health topics of interest to a wide cross section of industries and businesses. The author‘s relaxed yet focused approach and consistent format allow efficient access to a broad range of occupational health and safety information. The topics covered include not only those that are currently regulated but also emerging issues such as injury and illness prevention programs and the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology. | Concise Guide to Workplace Safety and Health What You Need to Know When You Need It

GBP 180.00
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Creating a Lean Culture Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions Third Edition

Creating a Lean Culture Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions Third Edition

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award The new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. It shows you how to implement a sustainable successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a Lean transformation this is where you should start and finish � and start again. Read the Reviews:This book became an instant classic in the literature of professional operations. In this third edition David Mann updates and expands his teaching with five additional years of valuable experience and expertise derived from his very active multi-industry consultancy. I have benefitted greatly from his writing and wholeheartedly recommend this book to be top-of-the desk of any serious Lean practitioner or performance transformation leader. � Raymond C. Floyd two-time Shingo Prize Winner President and CEO Plasco Energy GroupDavid Mann builds substantially on his seminal work on the Lean management system. The book is full of new insight and polishes the most important ideas about Lean management. The new chapter on engaging executive leadership alone is worth the price of the book. � Peter Ward Richard M. Ross Professor and Chair Department of Management Science Fisher College of Business The Ohio State UniversityThis book has long been my �go-to� guide on Lean management practices that help create a culture of continuous improvement and excellence. I have recommended the book to countless healthcare leaders who rave about how he | Creating a Lean Culture Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions Third Edition

GBP 180.00
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